When you are setting up a connection to an external data source, Spotfire needs to map the data types in the data source to data types in Spotfire. See below for a list of the different data types that Spotfire supports and the applied data type mappings when working with a Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services data source.
Analysis Services Data Type |
Spotfire Data Type |
Binary |
Binary |
Boolean |
Boolean/Bool |
Currency |
Currency |
Date |
DateTime |
Integer |
Integer |
SmallInt |
Integer |
TinyInt |
Integer |
UnsignedInt |
Integer |
UnsignedSmallInt |
Integer |
UnsignedTinyInt |
Integer |
BigInt |
LongInteger/Long |
UnsignedBigInt |
LongInteger/Long |
Double |
Real/Double |
Single |
SingleReal/Float |
WChar |
String |
Any other data types are not supported.